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Last year we added 18 solar panels to the roof of our home. Despite the western exposure, our electric bills have been significantly reduced. I’ve also been thinking about electric cars and have been a full supporter of the Green New Deal. But a book...

Steele Dossier source indicted for lying to the FBI. How the Russiagate conspiracy keeps falling apart under scrutiny. 05.11.2021, Sputnik International

Decades of ‘individual choice’ rhetoric hasn’t gotten us closer to solving climate change, the trash problem or even the massive destruction that comes with building mines. If we still consume at the rate Westerners do, it’s likely ecological collapse will continue to march forward. 

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Governors Wind Energy Coalition California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it Source: By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times  • Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific...

A gathering of 250 people held in downtown Reno was held to slow approval of a lithium mine 25 miles south of the Nevada-Oregon border.

When I was a child, I fell in love with nature. I explored and knew intimately the wild lands near my home – places full of enchantment, wonder, and a

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Governors Wind Energy Coalition The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles Source: By Ivan Penn and Eric Lipton, photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times • Posted: Sunday, May 9, 2021 A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green. The Salton Sea is one of numerous new mining proposals in a global gold ...

353 views We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right “spin” to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy; they certainly won’t suggest that the automobile you purchase today may be of no use to you in five years. I believe that what has happened in recent years is that the “truth” has become very dark. We l...